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Less than a week before, O'Carroll and other Wobblies were clubbed and arrested by the New York police for demonstrations in Union Square: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F10C12FA3D5E13...

NYT of April 12, 1914 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9501E6DA133DE333A... describes the 4/11/1914 demonstration.

Other Bain/LOC photos from the I. W. W. rally in Union Square, New York City:

Wystan and swanq: Thanks for linking these images to the IWW rally in NYC. We'll include this info. in the records next time we update.

Anti-War Rally at "The Cottage" in Union Square, New York City, August 8, 1914. [World War I had just broken out in Europe.] "Suffragettes" had rallied there on May 2, 1914: Workers' rally a day earlier (May Day), 1914: Lincoln Steffens harangued an IWW crowd on April 11, 1914: William Jennings Bryan spoke two years before, on April 20, 1912:

Wystan, Yes, it is! We will add to the caption when we update. Thanks!

Other Bain photos of the Socialist Anti-War rally in Union Square, August 8, 1914:

Cornelius "Con" Lehane, an Irishman and a Socialist orator, immigrated to the United States in 1913. In 1917, after the U. S. entered World War I, Lehane was imprisoned for opposing the war effort. He died in 1919. Wikipedia on Con Lehane: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con_Lehane_(socialist)

Degenerate and killer number one!

Not a degenerate or a killer. Actually a man who gave his entire life to the struggle to create better living conditions and a better world for ordinary people. Thank goodness he was around to stop the Nazis when the British and American governments were falling over themselves to appease Hitler. Long live the glorious memory of JV Stalin!

No, Stalin is animal and fascist! Stalin together with Hitler occupied Poland and after this animal has attacked Finland and the Baltic states! Stalin the same idiot and the murderer as Hitler!

Labelling a man an animal is similar to the way the Hitlerites characterised the slavs and Russians in the build up to WWII, and bares similarity to the way the west is today trying to dehumanize muslims and arabs. When you dehamanize people it becomes possible to commit genocide, like today in Palestine. The people of europe and the world have learnt this lesson and it is why JV Stalin is still revered and his memory chrished by the poor and oppressed. Stalin and the Soviet Union liberated Poland and the Baltics from fascist tyranny, no amount of black Goebellsian propaganda can hide that fact.

You should learn history! Stalin and Hitler together occupied Poland and shot people! Soviet Union occupied the Baltic states! Stalin was companion and the best Hitler's friend! For Latvians, Estonians, Lithuanians and Poles, Stalin, the communism and Soviet Union is too most that Hitler and fascism.